Continuing on yesterday’s topic from Alex…

As Americans debate “Health Care Reform” there is a lot of misinformation out there regarding what the Obama administration is proposing. Just watch Fox News for any length of time and you’ll hear plenty. But I just read a Yahoo! News article that shows what the public believes versus what the administration states their goals are.
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Came across two articles today that friends had posted to their Facebook pages¹, and I thought I’d share. Here are some relevant quotationals:

“You can feel grateful for the protection currently offered by Medicare (or by private insurance) only if you don’t realize how much you truly spend to fund this system over your lifetime, and if you believe you’re getting good care in return.”

Full article here.

“In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero.”

Full article here.

It seems obvious to me that there aren’t going to be any simple answers when it comes to Health Care Reform, which means that the cynic in me doubts we’ll get good reform, since our entire culture is geared towards the simple answer… but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. And if any of you who work in the health care industry want to weigh in, please do.

Last weekend I was enjoying a nice continental breakfast¹ at a Holiday Inn Express.² As people are wont to do, I inspected the carton of milk in front of me, mostly out of boredom. The ingredients list happened to catch my eye: Milk, Vitamin A, Vitamin D. And underneath that a food allergy disclaimer – Contains: Milk.

Of course it contains Milk! It IS Milk! ‘Milk’ is the single biggest word ON the carton, and it’s repeated several times! Are we really such an ignorant and litigious culture that we need this kind of horrendous intelligence-insulting CYA on a single serving carton of milk?³

And don’t even get me started on how the Feds are gonna start raiding garage sales.

“Does anyone here have a laptop with wi-fi?” (It was then that I developed my drinking problem. *Throws drink over shoulder.*)

Interesting blog post making the rounds on Teh Interwebz recently. Apparently some pilots in Newark, having been all jammed up due to weather, put out a call to the cabin for anyone with internet access. A willing passenger obliged, and the pilots used his laptop (although they needed help) to look at weather and file a flight plan to get them off the ground more quickly.

I don’t suppose this thing is really all that out of the ordinary, and I like that the pilots were this proactive about getting things moving. Still, I’d like to think at least one of my pilots can operate a web browser without assistance.

I bet Jay Glazer feels like an idiot.

A day after backing off his story that several Minnesota Vikings players feel that Favre would be playing for the Vikings this year, the unthinkable happened. At this moment Brett Favre is practicing with the Vikings.
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